Hello and welcome to RFFA Australia, the home of the Orphan Rescue Kits!. Build an O.R.K yourself or help build one, for as little as $4! The O.R.K. is an initiative of the Coolamon (Australia) Rotary Club, to assist the survival of African Orphans..enjoy your stay and help us build the O.R.K! Please support our exiting World AIDS Day 2011 project "The Mountains of the Moon": an endorsed project of RFFA, Rotarians For Fighting AIDS. The funds we raise on this adventure will go to these beneficiaries: Click here to see

Archive for August, 2009

RFFA Rotarians For Fighting AIDS

August 25, 2009

RFFA or Rotarians For Fighting AIDS will be the major beneficiary of the Mountains of the Moon climb. Here is a short video on why we are doing this and it is to help the most vulnerable children on this planet; like Reagan in the slums of the big African cities like Mathare in Nairobi.  [...]

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Slide Show Mountains of the Moon

August 25, 2009

I found these wonderful photos by Hulivili from Finland enjoy the slide show just great photographjy in a beautiful place on earth: The Mountains of the Moon. Hulivili The boy from the Far North (Finland) who became a medical scientist, world citizen and connoisseur of the art of living. Currently living in Qatar. I love [...]

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From The Cape to Cairo by ES Grogan and AH Sharp 1900

August 12, 2009

Cape to Cairo by ES Grogan and AH Sharp, around 1898 these two adventurers decided to plan a route for a railway line and telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo.  They wrote a book published in 1900 by Hurst and Blackett London.  On their way to Cairo they went via the Rwenzori Mountains and [...]

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Mountains of the Moon More Photos

August 9, 2009

These photos are courtesy of Rwenzori.com ,  rwenzori.com was created and is maintained by Ugandan Rwenzori enthusiasts. As such it is not an official Rwenzori National Park website. In fact, this site is not an official website of any government, conservationist, geologist, botanist, peace-loving, war-loving or other such body! ENJOY! and JOIN US!

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Photos from The Mountains of the Moon

August 5, 2009

Thanks go to Bishop Masereka and Alex Thembo from Kasese on the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon for the following photographs.

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Mother and Child

August 3, 2009

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Claudius Ptolemy

August 3, 2009

He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer. He lived in Egypt under the Roman Empire, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid. He died in Alexandria around AD 168. Ptomley Information Wikpedia In AD150, the Alexandrine geographer Ptolemy wrote of a snow capped mountain range, [...]

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Kochie & Hockey climb Mt Kilimanjaro

August 2, 2009

24 months ago a group of Aussies climbed Kilimanjaro for the AIDS orphans of Africa and this week David Koch and Joe Hockey, two well known Aussies are doing the same for the children of Australia.  We will post Kochie and Joe’s progress here on this web site. It brings back many happy memories for [...]

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